08-11-2022, 11:39 AM
(08-11-2022, 11:34 AM)king1 Wrote:(08-11-2022, 09:50 AM)jilledge Wrote:
I am referring to farmers not being permitted to include natives, riparian planting, shelter belts etc. in the carbon sequestration equation - it's only pine trees, and if you've ever walked through a pine plantation it's effectively scorched earth underneath the canopy.
i'm sure they had their reasons for excluding riparian planting, shelter belts etc There has to be some limitations in the ETS otherwise you would probably end up with an exploited system that doesn't achieve the aims that it was designed to achieve. Natives are ok as far as I can tell, as long as they meet the requirements... (post 1990 for natives by the looks of it)
There doesn't appear to be any logical reason to exclude them - they often take up hectares and hectares of land, and sequest a lot of carbon. However the Govt. appears intent on turning good food producing land into scorched earth with pinus radiata sitting on top of it.
It is simply another example of the Govt. not actually knowing what they are doing and refusing to accept that others know better - hence the one source of truth comment. They are horrendous.